Kautilya
Machiavelli then asks whether being feared or loved is preferable. Ideally, a prince should be both loved and feared, but this state of affairs is difficult to attain. Forced to make a choice, it is much better to be feared than loved.
Who is known as the Machiavelli of India?
How princes should keep faith?
A prince must always appear to be truthful, merciful, and religious, even if he must sometimes act in the opposite way. Interestingly, these are the very same qualities he condemns Agathocles for lacking in Chapter 8, but here, he advises the prince to dispense with them when necessary.
What does more of ease mean?
What does it mean to think “more of ease“? to focus on your activities. Only $2.
what should a prince do “wishing to hold on to his power?” The prince must recognize their qualities and use them against enemies as well as show good qualities to the people so you are respected. Machiavelli believes that a prince will have some bad and even evil qualities.
What does thought more of ease than of arms mean?
He is saying don’t worry about being easy going and being peaceful you are going to lose your land and power. When Machiavelli writes that a prince who has “thought more of ease than of arms” may lose their states, what is he warning princes to avoid?